Lurk

Introduction Chew On This, by Eric Schlosser, endeavors into the world of fast food, specifically describing McDonald 's throughout the book. Schlosser not only focuses on the harmful effects of the food, but the actual business itself, and the marketing strategies that caused it to become so successful. He forges further into all of the unintended negative impacts of the industry socially, environmentally, economically, and physically. Schlosser really is trying to inform his readers of fast…

Between April and July 2010, approximately 4.1 million barrels of oil from the British Petroleum’s rig Deepwater Horizon leaked into the Gulf of Mexico, wreaking havoc on the environment and disrupting human life along the shore. The New York Times article “Where Gulf Spill Might Place on the Roll of Disasters” questions President Obama’s description of this tragedy as “the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced.” Instead, it proposed contenders as devastating and varied as the…

“Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other”. Nowadays, many people tend to focus on the advantages of technology and normally push aside the disadvantages. Since the Internet made its spectacular debut to the world, everything has changed dramatically. According to Wallace in, Are you a Cyber Criminal, “we need only reach into our pockets and peck at tiny keys to gain access to a world of data”. It takes us less than a…

Amanda Hocking was born, bred swears that she will die in Minnesota. Aside from being a proud Minnesotan Hocking is one of the few or rather the earliest authors to really take on the indie publication market. By the time she was 26, Hocking had written 17 books and published them herself online. She writes young adult fantasy books, some of which have made it onto the New York Times' Bestsellers list. Hocking tackles Vampires to Zombies and everything in between. Some of her more famous work…

imaginable can all be obtain by the press of some buttons. One must ask if all this knowledge is good for us or not? Nicholas Carr, the author of Is Google Making Us Stupid, helps one realize the true implications of the internet and the dangers that lurk beneath. Carr successfully describes how the internet manipulates human minds towards the decline and ultimately the destruction of one’s concentration and contemplation by the need for efficiency, distraction, and improving technology. The…

In the 21st century companies display the human body in a provocative manner with nudity on billboards and advertisements in magazines. As a person looks at an advertisement for perfume or nail polish, the eyes go straight to the naked body of the model. When seeing the beautiful, sexy model with the beauty products, the buyer falls in the trap of buying the products believing that they will also feel beautiful and sexy. They want to seek the pleasure the model exhibits while wearing the product…

of the dark side of things because they lack the concepts necessary for awareness, and they lack those concepts because life has not yet provided them.” Babies are not born aware and children have not lived enough years to be aware of the bad that lurks in the world. Jem and Scout, who have barely undergone ten years of life, are finally exposed to it in Maycomb with the result of Tom’s trial and Mr.…

outcome. This makes it very interesting and fun to read. Not only does conflict serve as a way to entertain readers, but it can also teach valuable lessons. “The Most Dangerous Game” was able to leave its readers with a powerful reminder that conflict lurks everywhere and can strike at any given moment, even when it’s least…

Famous authors and artists are often lauded for the madness that lurks behind their works. They were allowed to freely express themselves through a variety of media, whether it was music, art, or even through narrative. Their popularities stemmed from their abilities to envision new, imaginative ideas that had not been thought of before, at least by any ‘sane’ person. However, their situations would not be the same had someone stifled their creativity; their creativity was even an outlet for…

For countless millennia, civilizations around the globe have followed a patriarchal social construct. Far too often has the female voice been suppressed in the favor of their masculine counterparts. In the novel, Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad tells the tale of Marlow, a captain of a steamboat for the Belgian Continental Trading Society, as he ventures deep into the Congo. Although Conrad addresses the corruption of Africa and its people by European imperialism, he turns a blind-eye to the…